Melodies Of A Living Dead Poem by Olatunde Temitayo

Along the street of mischief
Dwellers are not yet relief
Sonorous sobs sounding there and
there
By band of distressed men
Starvation; now the living bread
Man's blood; a quench to roads' thirst
Tribulative shirt covers needies'
chest
Peasants feed from the bests
Personages participate in penury's
party
Drinking from jug of poverty
The piano of doom played
everywhere
Danced by starved men
Grief flying in the atmosphere
Biting man breathing-in air
Smiles on faces are rare
But frowns captured the air
Babies; the new born ancestor
Daily journey to the old ancestors
Through a plane of hunger
Which echoes dirges in mothers'
quarter